A judge ruled last year that prosecutors failed to quickly take Conte’s case to trial, so Conte was allowed to leave jail — and the state — pending his January trial.

Conte was to wear an electronic monitor and remain under house arrest at his mother’s home in Wisconsin, according to court documents.

Lassiter, Conte’s lawyer, had argued that the former emergency room doctor should be released because the law requires that defendants be freed if they are not tried within nine months of being charged. The judge agreed and granted Lassiter’s request.